Cotton On Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 15
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|      "On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
|      reported by merchants in special account status 1/ as of  4/13/01
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|                                 (In Contracts)
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|            |                                           |    Open Futures
|            |        Call Cotton Based New York         | Contracts - New York
|            |                                           |   Cotton Exchange
|Futures     |-------------------------------------------|----------------------
|            |  Unfixed |  Change  |  Unfixed |  Change  |  At      |  Change
|Based       |  Call    |  From    |  Call    |  From    |  Close   |  From
|            |  Sales   |  Prev.   |  Purchs. |  Prev.   |          |  Prev.
|On:         |          |  Week    |          |  Week    |  4/13/01 |  Week
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|May      '01      1,758       -325      5,542       -614     17,644   -10,298
|July     '01      7,423       -261      2,723        285     26,041     4,970
|October  '01      2,041        742        573          7      1,234        26
|December '01      6,711        397      4,186        -69     19,796       720
|March    '02     15,240        937      5,015          0      2,767       323
|May      '02      7,057        610          0          0      2,392       133
|July     '02     11,588      1,294          0          0      1,163         7
|October  '02      1,196          0          0          0        155         0
|December '02        699          2        142          0      1,007        45
|March    '03         72         -4          0          0         45        14
|May      '03         37         11          0          0          0         0
|July     '03         78         20          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       53,900      3,423     18,181       -391     72,244    -4,060
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|This report is published by the Commission's Division of Economic Analysis.
|If you have any questions concerning this report, call Vincent G. Varisano,
|Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (212) 488-1311.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|4/19/01
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